Sunday, January 31, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.31

Chinese food
A pile of delicious dishes from Hoho Seafood Restaurant for Chinese New Year gathering

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Friday, January 29, 2016

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.28

Franz peacock teapot
Spotted at Market Spice in Pike Place Market

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.26

Tiny scotch whisky
Coworker brought a bunch of these tiny cute bottles back from Scotland...

Monday, January 25, 2016

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Friday, January 22, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.22

Space Invader
One of my new toys. Hee ^^

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.21

Invasion Loot Crate
Invasion themed Loot Crate for January.

The past few loot crates were only meh, but I actually liked this one. Fun vinyl space invader, X-Files t-shirt and flashlight (and hooray reboot!), and lol multi pass (Fifth Element). The pin and prints looked really cool too

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.20

Crane building itself
Engineering is quite amazing

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Monday, January 18, 2016

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Saturday, January 16, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.16

They drift mural
Spotted in Wallingford neighborhood

Friday, January 15, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.15

Old rice cooker
Farewell, my old rice cooker, inherited from my parents who brought this over when they first immigrated to the states.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Monday, January 11, 2016

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.10

Lion rug
Lion rug, as seen at the Jonathan Adler store. Roar.

Saturday, January 9, 2016

Friday, January 8, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.08

Tarte au citron
Tarte au citron (lemon tart) from Fuji Bakery

Tasty little thing. Meringue ribon looked so pretty. The sheet of white chocolate seemed unnecessary.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.07

Shio ramen
Shio ramen with egg from Yoroshiku
I prefer their shoyu ramen broth. The meat and egg were fabulous though

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.06

Donald Duck antique
Donald Duck antique toy, as seen at an antique shop

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.05

Measuring spoons
Brand new measuring spoons from Sur La Table... yay

Monday, January 4, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.04

3DS transfer
Upgrading my 3DS to an XL after 4 years. Hooray!
Also hard to see, but little Pikmin helped with the transfers =D

Hello 2016!

It's 2016?!? We're more than halfway through the 2010s!

A look back on 2015, and patterns of the new and the old emerge.
  • Skiing (new) - First time in my life. I picked a terrible season to learn (icy slopes from drier than usual weather), but now I can confidently go on green slopes
  • Austin/Vancouver trips (old) - These became routine and rather comforting to visit family and friends
  • Camping/backpacking (new) - Last time I went camping was 5 years ago. Backpacking was a new experience, more difficult than I like but the reward is worth it
  • Hiking (old) - While nature still amazes me each time I go, I'm running out of doable and new trails
  • Professional conference (new) - Traveled to Boston for a conference. I found myself wanting more out of my career for once, but at the same time feeling incredibly lucky to have the comfortable and well-paying job I do now
  • Local events and concerts (old) - ECCC, tea festival, brickcon, urban craft uprisings, and a number of concerts due to minor involvement with Live Music Project. Still fun to go, tho not too much variety
  • SE Asia (new) - Took a big trip in November to Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, then a stopover in Taiwan (I haven't been in 8 years). SE Asia was amazing. I would do it again in a heartbeat, even if it was ridiculously hot

2015 was full of old and new things. Although I set some goals for myself, I really lost track of them along the year... so this year, I'm planning to set a couple general goals for each month so I don't lose track of them. There will be what I call fun and hard goals - fun being a little more measurable since it will involve a game or book or so, hard being like soft skills and social aspects that require mindset adjustments. Hoping eventually I can address my huge photo backlog and other such projects using this method... we'll see.

So for January 2016:
  • Fun goal: finish the Starcraft 2 Legacy of the Void campaign
  • Hard goal: fix my sleep schedule so that I naturally want to go to bed around midnight
2016, here we go!

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.02

Hanging cranes
Hanging cranes display at the escalators of Niemann Marcus

Friday, January 1, 2016

Photo-a-day 2016.01.01

Happy New Year!
Happy 2016! Photo-a-day continues on through the new year!